by Peter Finn
“it is deplorable that the Nobel committee”: James F. Clarity, “Soviet Writers Union Criticizes Nobel Prize Given Solzhenitsyn,” The New York Times, October 10, 1970.
“dying slowly right in front of my eyes”: Olga Ivinskaya to Nikita Khrushchev, letter, March 10, 1961. The full letter is available in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Col.: 8131, I.: 31, F.: 89398, S.: 51.
Irina was reported to have a stomach ulcer: “Pasternak Friends Now Seriously Ill,” The New York Times, June 17, 1961.
“I am not saying that I am not guilty”: Olga Ivinskaya, letter to Nikita Khrushchev, March 10, 1961, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Col.: 8131, I.: 31, F.: 89398, S.: 51.
“characteristics of the detainee”: Ibid., S.: 50.
“It seems to me that the time has come for frankness”: Carlo Feltrinelli, Feltrinelli, 198.
“learned to wind spaghetti”: Ibid., 199.
“bellicose and uncompromising”: Heinz Schewe, letter to Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, January 27, 1965, Heinz Schewe Papers, Nachlass Heinz Schewe, Unternehmensarchiv, Axel Springer AB, Berlin.
the equivalent of $24,000: Schewe, Pasternak privat, 94.
Pasternak’s “faithful companion”: Feltrinelli press release published in Corriere della Sera on March 1, 1970, and cited in D’Angelo, Delo Pasternaka, 238.
“no longer believed in anything”: For an account of Feltrinelli’s last years, including all quotations, see Carlo Feltrinelli, Feltrinelli, 235–334.
the copyright line read: Carlo Feltrinelli, Feltrinelli, 200.
At the V. I. Lenin State Library: Yelena Makareki, former employee of the V. I. Lenin State Library’s Special Collections section, interview and visit to library by Petra Couvée in Moscow, May 8, 2011.
“a wealth of noncommunist philosophy”: Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, 343.
On a spring evening on Gorky Street: Olga Carlisle, Under a New Sky, 74.
overcome with emotion: Linda Örtenblad, archivist at the Swedish Academy, email message to the authors, March 1, 2013.
Afterword
A successful stunt: Kees van den Heuvel, interview by Petra Couvée in Leidschendam, February 22, 1999.
Russian prisoners of war in Afghanistan: Reisch, Hot Books in the Cold War, 515.
“a museum dedicated to Pasternak”: Rachel van der Wilden, interview by Couvée in The Hague, August 16, 2012.
The books program is “demonstrably effective”: “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976,” Soviet Union 12 (January 1969–October 1970): 463.
The CIA distributed 10 million books … at least 165,000 books: “ILC: A Short Description of Its Structure and Activities,” George C. Minden Papers, box 3, Hoover Institution Archives.
“dictionaries and books on language”: Reisch, Hot Books in the Cold War, 525.
“We caused much harm”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, 196.
They viewed themselves as the descendants: Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, 20.
A wave of conversions: Adam Miknik, 1995 interview by Joseph Brodsky, in Kniga Interv’yu (Book of Interviews), 713.
“all hunted and tormented poets”: Bakhyt Kenzheyev, email message to Couvée, May 10, 2006.
Yet the order of the acts is planned: Boris Pasternak, “Zhivago’s Poems,” Doctor Zhivago (1958), 467.
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Literature in the USSR
Censorship in the USSR
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Fondazione Russia Cristiana, Seriate:
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RUSSIA
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Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI):
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SWEDEN
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International Conference of Professors of English
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Prime Minister’s Files: Vetting and Translation of Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
BELGIUM
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Leuven University, Kadoc (Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society):
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